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UN Committee Blasts Israeli "Rights Violations"
July 19, 2017
An annual evaluation from a UN Committee established specifically to target Israel over alleged human rights violations concluded that "Israeli authorities continue with policies and practices," including administrative detention and extrajudicial killings, "that negatively impact the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory."
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UNESCO Pushes "Sustainability" Education in Southern Africa
July 19, 2017
Representatives from a group of Southern African countries recently approved a training course and materials supported by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the aim of transposing the international organization's "Education for Sustainable Development" agenda in school curricula across the region.
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UNESCO Seeks Way Forward for "Sustainability" Education
July 19, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently hosted a symposium in Germany in which it solicited ideas from an international group of experts on how best to implement UNESCO's agenda on "education for sustainable development" to promote "empathy, passion and sustainable behaviour" in education systems around the world.
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UN Meeting Emphasizes Comprehensive SDG Push
July 19, 2017
Demonstrating the single-minded prioritization of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across all parts of the UN system, a recent meeting between UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) officials focused on "UN system-wide engagement in delivering the SDGs."
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NGO Calls for Competitive Elections at UNHRC
July 19, 2017
Echoing similar calls of US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, Akshaya Kumar of Human Rights Watch asserts that the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) must hold competitive elections for its seats to prevent the election of notorious human rights violators through “clean slate” deals that allow countries to win seats without competition.
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